African Agriculture and Food Systems
By Kilimokwanza On a typical vegetable farm in Arusha or Kilimanjaro, tomatoes occupy a special place. They are grown on nearly half the plot dedicated to them, almost double the land share given to any other vegetable. They receive fertiliser at a rate of 95% of farming households, more than any other crop in the […]
By Kilimokwanza Correspondent The question of why so few Tanzanians eat enough fruit and vegetables is often framed as a market problem, a behaviour problem, or an affordability problem. A baseline evaluation published in July 2025 by researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute and partners suggests it is also, at a foundational level, […]
Ihemi Cluster · Iringa & Njombe · March 2026 Khalid Mgaramo:How public–private trustis actually built By Kilimokwanza Correspondent Ihemi Cluster Field Report · March 2026 Khalid Mgaramo joined SAGCOT in 2017 as an infrastructure specialist in Dar es Salaam, moved to Dodoma in 2018 to establish the policy office during the government’s capital transition, and […]
Farm For the Future, operating from Ilula in Iringa and backed by Norwegian agricultural equipment manufacturers Underhaug AS and Kverneland Group, has launched a formal buy-or-lease offering of modern farm machinery targeting smallholder farmers, AMCOS, and agro-dealers across Tanzania. A Tanzanian agricultural enterprise based in Ilula, Iringa has positioned itself as the country’s newest dedicated […]
A landmark CGIAR evaluation published in July 2025, covering 2,611 households across 33 villages in five districts, has produced the most granular picture yet of what smallholder farmers in northern Tanzania grow, how they grow it, and what the data reveals about why the region’s nutrition crisis is, at its root, a production crisis. In […]
KILIMOKWANZA SPECIAL SERIES: ON AGCOT • WHAT TRANSFORMATION ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE Eighteen portraits from Tanzania’s agricultural corridor • Batch 4: The AGCOT Leadership • kilimokwanza.org The Board Chairman Who Walked the Fields First Dr. Ally Hussein Laay has chaired the AGCOT Centre board since 2018 – through a pandemic, an institutional rebrand, a USD 6.34 […]
KILIMOKWANZA SPECIAL SERIES: ON AGCOT • WHAT TRANSFORMATION ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE Eighteen portraits from Tanzania’s agricultural corridor • Batch 1: The Farmers • kilimokwanza.org The Farmer Who Is Already Thinking About Old Age Raymond Nyagawa farms one acre of potatoes in Mtwango Village and has approximately 100 avocado trees coming into production. When Geoffrey Kirenga […]
A review of the Hand in Hand Initiative’s Financial & Economic Analysis of the Soybean Value Chain in Tanzania Tanzania’s agricultural sector is sitting on an underexploited goldmine — and a new analytical report from the Hand in Hand Initiative in Tanzania is making the case, with numbers, for why now is the time to […]
The International Finance Corporation has released what it describes as a first-of-its-kind framework to guide investments in regenerative farming — a move that could reshape how development finance flows to agribusinesses across emerging markets. The document arrives at a moment of mounting urgency. One third of global soils are already degraded, agriculture is responsible for […]
IN MEMORIAM — AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE The Scientist Who Fed Two Million Farmers The life, research, and enduring legacy of Dr. Dadili Japhet Majune, Head of Cashew Breeding at TARI Naliendele — Tanzania’s quiet architect of a better harvest, and a vision ahead of its time Kilimokwanza Team, Nakuru, Saturday, April 5, 2026 There are people […]